Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, a senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, a contributing editor of The American Prospect, and an occasional contributor. His previous work on racial segregation and public education is posted here, and his most recent Prospect print story, ‘The Making of Ferguson,’ can be read here. Readers may correspond with him about his writing at riroth@epi.org.
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